Why History Will Eviscerate Obama

New York matazine ^ | January 12, 2015 | Christopher Caldwell

[DPMD]

Too bad it’s only a metaphor.

[Verginius Rufus]

Most academics are Democrats (if not further to the left). They despised GWB from the time he began to run for the Presidency and hated him once he defeated Gore's attempt to steal the election. Apart from a brief armistice after 9/11, it was all negative all the time. Compare how Bush was blamed for the poor handling of the aftermath of Katrina whereas Obama got no criticism for the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

If the Presidents were to be judged by objective historians, I think GWB would rank somewhere above average, and Obama near the bottom (along with Carter and a couple of the mid-19th century Presidents).

Carter's one big accomplishment was the Camp David Accords, which may have marginally improved the situation in the Middle East but did nothing to resolve the overall Arab-Israeli conflict and was tangential to American welfare overall. Obama's major accomplishment, Obamacare, is causing and will continue to cause damage to the country, so Obama already deserves to rank below Carter, even before his last two years operating the wrecking ball. But academic historians will try to rank him higher.

[MosesKnows]

... by the rich and powerful

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell: 1984

Only if you allow it ...

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. Napoleon Bonaparte

[Impy]

Why it won’t, history is written by libtards who rank the likes of FDR and Truman as “great”.

Obama will be a “misunderstood and under-appreciated President who flirted with greatness”.

[hinckley buzzard]

Carter's one big accomplishment was the Camp David Accords,

The Camp David Accords were extremely important in that they established a peace between Israel and Egypt, recent adversaries, which has held these many years. But Carter's role has been typically exaggerated. Both Israel and Egypt wanted peace, and Sadat had already flown to Israel to get it. In effect Carter simply added American guarantees to a deal the principals had already worked out.

[LS]

All: you might look at the new 10th anniversary edition of “Patriot’s History of the United States” or T volume 2of “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World” for an accurate analysis of Zero’s first term.